General Thomas Sumter 1734 -1832

(West Face right)

Thomas Sumter was born

near the Blue Ridge

Mountains in Virginia in 1734.

He fought in the French and

Indian War and also against

the Cherokees in 1761.

(South Face)

Sumter married Mary

Cantey in 1767 in St. Marks

Parish (Clarendon County)

South Carolina. They ...

Oketeyeconne / Chattahoochee Theater

Oketeyeconne

Oketeyeconne, or Okitiyakani, was a Hitchiti-speaking Lower Creek town located near here on the east bank of the Chattahoochee River south of Sandy Creek during the late frontier period. Described in 1799 by Benjamin Hawkins, “. . . the little ...

The Carillon Battlefield

In the mid-18th century, this battlefield was a focal point in the Seven Years’ War, a world war between France and Great Britain. Here the two super-powers struggled for control of the Lake Champlain Lake George water highway, the strategic ...

Middens and Reefs

Oyster Middens, or piles of discarded shells, once littered the landscape of Manhattan and its neighboring shores, a testament to the astonishing abundance of the indigenous European Oyster, Crassostrea virginica. Archaeologists have discovered many middens around the world, left ...

McFadden's Ford

As Union soldiers crouched here behind the breastworks of stone and rail, a battered advance division retreated back across the river, pursued by General John C. Breckinridge's hard-driving Confederate brigades. Union artillery batteries firing from the rise above McFadden's Ford ...

Indiantown Presbyterian Church

Organized in 1757 with John James and Robert Wilson as founding elders. Burned by the British in 1780 as “a sedition shop.” Rebuilt after the Revolution. Present building begun in 1830, remodelled in 1919. Major John James, Revolutionary hero, is ...

First Presbyterian Church Memorial Chapel

Built 1874

The First Presbyterian Church was the City's first Protestant church and an early significant religious institution of the City.

Commemorated by City of Livermore Historic Preservation Commission

May 2007

Marker is at the intersection of Fourth Street and S K Street on ...

Site - Alabama’s First Constitutional Convention

Here, on July 5, 1819 forty-four delegates from twenty-two Counties in the Alabama Territory met to frame a State Constitution which was accepted and signed August 2, 1819.

Convention leadership was furnished by two Huntsvillians, John Williams Walker, president, and Clement ...

The Island Church

Built in 1863, St. Wenceslaus Church served families who came chiefly from Bohemia and Germany. The little church, significant in Wisconsin’s architectural heritage, closed in 1891. It still opens for special Masses.

Marker is at the intersection of Island Church Road ...

1814 Boundary / Founding of Fort Gaines

1814 Boundary

The boundary line defined in the Treaty of Fort Jackson (August 1814) between the confederated Creek tribes and the United States extended eastward from the mouth of Cemochechobee Creek south of here to a point near Jesup, Georgia. Signed ...